Table of Contents

Part 1
PARTICLES AND INTERACTIONS
1: Quarks and Leptons and their Interactions
2: Relativistic Transformations and the Equivalence Principle
3: Conservation Rules, Symmetries and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
4: Extensions of the Standard Model
Part 2
THE EARLY UNIVERSE
5: The Expanding Universe
6: Nucleosynthesis and Baryogenesis
7: Dark Matter and Dark Energy components
8: Development of Structure in the Early Universe
Part 3
PARTICLES AND RADIATION IN THE COSMOS
9: Cosmic Particles
10: Particle Processes in Stars and Galaxies
Appendices

About the Author

D. H. Perkins is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition One attractive feature of Perkins' book is that each chapter ends with a concise summary of its most important items. Perkins writes exceptionally clearly and includes a significant number of worked examples, making this an ideal textbook for use in a junior or senior course that introduces particle theory and cosmology and their strong interrelationship.
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CERN Courier